[Wolves] ClamAV

[Don Cockman]

Hi,

ClamAV is really quite good, apart from the relatively small database of 
virus signatures. I attached an XP harddrive to my m/c last week to backup 
the data before re-formatting and it found a virus (from 2001) which 
Norton AV 2002 just ignored.

I've also had it find a virus that AVG couldn't see at all under my 
win4lin thingy.

I saw a client a while back who were using ClamAV as part of their 50000+ 
account email gateway... They seemed quite happy with it, but then again, 
they were running another 2 (commercial) AV packages at the same time ;-)

Bitdefender was another package that was quite impressive, but for some 
strange reason, 'upgrading' Mandrake 9-9.1 somehow broke it's update 
feature, as well as having intermittent problems handling certain types of 
files which meant that it had to be killed off on a fairly regular basis. 

Cheers,

Don

Hauraki Systems Ltd
www.hauraki.co.uk

 On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jon Farmer wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I am looking for opinions on ClamAV to use with Amavis. Is anyone using 
> it? Is there anything fundamentally wrong about ClamAV or is virus 
> checking a matter of paranoia?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jon
> 
>